Underground Storage Tanks

by Paul_NZ

Underground fluid storage tanks with substantially higher capacities.

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g SE compat

1 year, 3 months ago

hey, great mod and even better logo!
We've just discovered you can't place these in space, I get why because how do you have "underground" on a space platform, but I sorta imagine it as though they poke out of the underside of the station lol.
I'd love to make a PR and re-enable se_allow_in_space or make a separate "compatibility" mod.

It seems weird that SE provides giant item warehouses but doesn't provide comparable fluid tanks. This mod adds those comparable tanks!

1 year, 3 months ago

Hi ch4rl1e,
Thanks for your interest in my mod. Unfortunately I haven't played Factorio for about 10 months now and I'm quite busy with Baldur's Gate 3 and Starfield at the moment.
In that time pretty much everything I learned about making this mod has faded from memory. I have a vague impression that there was a good reason for setting the allow in space flag to false, but I can't remember why.
If you want to take a crack at this yourself, you should be able to unpack and re-pack the mod's zip file and alter three occurrences of se_allow_in_space to True in UndergroundTanks\prototypes\entities.lua preferably with Notepad++, but plain old Notepad will probably do.
When you stick the updated file back into the zip archive, that should be it, but if the mod won't load after, then:
Compress the whole UndergroundTanks folder into a new zip file using 7-Zip, change the compression method to zip from lzma and put in the parameters field "tc=off" which from what I recall is necessary for Factorio to open zip files nicely. Rename the new zip to match and then overwrite the original.
I hope this helps.

1 year, 3 months ago
(updated 1 year, 3 months ago)

Hey Paul, no worries and I absolutely understand it fading from memory haha, hope you're enjoying, I need to get myself Starfield!

I spend the better part of a day producing a patch mod to set the allow in space flag: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/UndergroundTanksSEPatch
That way people can chose for themselves to enable it :)

Would be ideal to just make it a togglable setting in the UI but I'm now very aware that that is easier said than done haha

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